Amazing Animals! 80 Ready-to-Use Stories & Activity Sheets for Building Reading Comprehension Skills
- List Price: $34.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publish date: 05/01/2001
Description:
For all classroom reading teachers and reading specialists in grades 3 to 6, here is an exciting collection of illustrated stories that capture and hold students' interest in animals while steadily improving their vocabulary, reading comprehension and critical thinking skills through carefully designed activity sheets. Each of four sections focus on reading levels 3 to 6 (each level contains 20 two-page stories and 20 accompanying two-page activity sheets). The stories are preceded by "New Vocabulary" and "Questions to Ask" to arouse students' curiosity.
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Samples of stories are:
-- Reading Level 3: "What Big Teeth You Have" (walruses); Reptiles with Shells (green turtles)
-- Reading Level 4: "I Wouldn't Eat That Cucumber" (sea cucumbers); "The Horse Tigers" (zebras)
-- Reading Level 5: "A Real Shocking Story" (electric eels); "Man of the Woods" (orangutans)
-- Reading Level 6: "The Miniature Dinosaurs" (praying mantises); "The Queen and Her Court" (honeybees)
Each section ends with ten reproducible enrichment activities to further challenge students' thinking skills. Answer keys to all activities are also included.
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